by Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska

An instant collector's item, this enormous, magnificent catalogue was out of print shortly after its publication. Extremely rare, new or used.

Prof. Jane Kristof wrote a comprehensive review of Polish Art Nouveau for the online journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide:

"For a nineteenth-century artist to attain stardom it was undoubtedly advantageous to be French. Failing that, to be British was second best and German a distant third. But to be Eastern European was an almost insuperable obstacle to attaining international artistic celebrity. Among the approximately five hundred illustrations in Robert Rosenblum and H. W. Janson's 19th-Century Art (1984), for instance, there is only one work by a Polish artist, Aleksander Gierymski's The Arbor (Study with Top Hat), ca. 1880–82, and that is probably one more than in other standard texts. . . . This neglect makes all the more valuable Polish Art Nouveau, a recently published study by Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, a curator at the National Museum in Kraków and the author of several books and exhibition catalogues on Polish art. This lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the most characteristic and progressive currents of Polish art and architecture during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth."

For the complete review, click here.

Kraków: Wydawnictwo Kluszczynski, 1999
464 pp., 608 color illus.; 11 x 14.5 in.
ISBN 8388080156

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